Music for Film: Creating a Soundtrack to Enhance Video Imagery

This project is focusing on the creative and technical aspects of composing a soundtrack for a video. Computer software that will be utilized to create the soundtrack includes Professional Digital Performer, to sequence MIDI data, and Sound Edit, to edit recorded sound bites. Learning objectives for the project include synchronizing music to video images, creating various textures through the use of non-traditional sound sources, creating musical sequences that reflect moods established by the video, editing prerecorded sound sources, and interfacing video and audio playback. The exhibit will contain a film that is displayed on a laptop computer and a poster containing reasons for particular creative decisions made regarding the soundtrack. The film, entitled “The Letter,” is about one female character’s struggle with depression and thoughts of suicide. One example of a creative decision in producing the film involves the use of certain musical themes or textures to reflect a scene in the video